The match between Olympique de Marseille and Lille, scheduled for this Saturday evening (9 p.m.), has been classified as high risk.
Feelings of fear and frustration have intertwined in recent hours as the match between Olympique de Marseille and Lille approaches. The terrible incidents that occurred in the Marseille city last Sunday, before the kick-off of the Marseille-Lyon match (ultimately postponed), are still on everyone’s minds.
Fear inhabits the Lille leaders, Olivier Létang in the lead. The northern club has also published an official press release in recent hours.
“Several exchanges were held today between the players – including the Lille leaders – of the Ligue 1 meeting, OM-LOSC, to be played this Saturday, November 4 and the local authorities, can we read. The LOSC was informed by the Bouches-du-Rhône Prefecture of all the supervision measures and reinforced security measures deployed in order to guarantee the smooth transportation and security of the official Lille delegation as well as its supporters. moving to the Vélodrome stadium. The LOSC takes note of these decisions and wants to be confident about the dimensioning and effectiveness of the exceptional measures necessarily taken by the authorities. Football and the field must regain their rights and LOSC will travel to Marseille with the intention of playing a very good football match against OM and its supporters.
The Lille supporter groups, for their part, are overcome by frustration after the ministerial decree prohibiting the travel of the 250 supporters who had organized the trip to the other end of France. A decision resulting from an explosive context for this match classified as high risk.
